Search Results: Titles starting with C from The Sensible Magpie

Ramona, California: Ballena Press, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Previous owner's ex-libris to front paste-down endpaper. Notations to title pages. Preliminary page with 4 x 3" glue residue area. Gilt lettering lightly debossed to spine of brown, cloth-covered boards. Unmarked text, bright, solid binding. 227 with bibliography and index. A guide to known primary sources about native Californians. Contents include : The Use of Government Documents, Archives and Publications as Resources on California Indians. Anthropological records in all California counties as well as other states and countries. A guide to audio-visual materials as well as sources of out-of-print publications.

New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Good Plus. FIRST EDITION. A tiny smudge to fore-edge. Dustjacket good plus. Sunning to spine. Moderate scuffing to surfaces. Moderate wear to edges, creasing, a .5" closed tear to front panel. Gilt lettering crisply debossed to spine of navy-blue, cloth-covered boards. With sixty-seven black and white cartoons and illustrations. Clean, tight, bright. 332 pp with selected bibliography. A collection of essay's from America's coming of age. Essays on Environment ; Arts ; Work and Play. Illustrations on Environmental Tastes ; Styles of Decoration and Design ; Buildings and values ; An Art is Born : Motion Pictures ; Rebellion in Painting ; Comic Srips and Cartoon Art ; Refinements in Advertising Technique, and ; Patterns of Work and Play.

Seattle: Spankstra Press, 2005. Paperback. Good Plus. Altemus, Reed. STAPLEBOUND. Moderate splotching to covers. Clean, bright, solid binding. 40 pp followed by notes on the text. Solid black card covers. A selection of articles which ran in various publications such as Harness, Roar Shock and Slate.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good Plus, with minor shelfwear.. PSALMS 1-50 bears ISBN: 0521291607; PSALMS 51-100 bears ISBN: 0521291615; PSALMS 101-150 bears ISBN: 0521291623.The authors open with a discussion of content, authorship, and the way the collection came to be put together, followed by a psalm-by-psalm presentation of the N.E.B. texts with commentary stressing the richness and variety of the material within. In addition, the scholars provide an analytical table of the predominant themes and discuss the literary characteristics of Hebrew poetry with special reference to devices such as the acrostic, and examine the problems faced by the N.E.B. translators. All in all, ascholastically sound attempt to balance the spiritual, historical, and literary aspects of this magnificent body of scripture. 243 pp., 236 pp. and 193 pp., respectively.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1920. Hardcover. Good. FIRST EDITION. REVIEW COPY. No Dustjacket. Withdrawn from a University Library stamp on front pastedown endpaper and top edge. Previous owner's name, in ink, to preliminary endpaper. Acid transfer to free endpapers. Age-tanned. Light wear to extremities. Black lettering on decorative tan title labels to red cloth spine and front of brown boards. Clear plastic cover. Book is solid and clean. 196 pp. Written in "polyphonic prose", these poems are closely related as the author is said to "owe their existence to the war, for I suppose that, had there been no war, I should never have thought of them," (preface).

Washington DC: Union PanAmericana, 1950. Paperback. Very Good. Lightly soiled covers and text block edges. Red and black lettering on front of white covers. Clean, bright, solid binding. 127 pp with index. American Popular Songbook : 75 songs of the 21 American republics. Five songs in English include : Dixie, Old Folks at Home, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, America the Beautiful and Home on the Range. Other titles include Adelita from Mexico, Ay! Mama Inex from Cuba, La Cumparsita from Uruguay, Cholita from Peru, Guabina Chiquinquirena from Colombia, Imbabura from Equador, Vamos A La Mar from Guatemala and many more.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1977. Hardcover. FINE. Sauvage, Sylvain. This Easton Press Collector's Edition is bound in dark-grey, genuine leather, with elegant gilt design to boards, gilded page-edges, and endpapers of champagne-colored, silk-moire fabric. The classic hubbed spines of three raised bands have 22K gold accents and there is a permanent satin ribbon page marker. The pages are thread-sewn for strength and durability, have long-lasting, acid-neutral, archival quality paper, and a handsome, readable typeface. Frontispiece by Charles Attebery. 131 pp. Clean, tight, bright. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. With an Introduction by Paul Morand and illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage. "Candide is a sequence of burlesque, breath-taking catastrophes developed in a long crescendo that gradually dies down and comes to a harmonious close in the rustic setting of a little garden," (introduction).

New York: Magico Magazine, 1984. Paperback. Fine. Red card covers. 18 pp. Staplebound pamphlet.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. Green cloth. Only sign of wear is pipe-smoke staining top edge. Text clean and bright but with smoke aroma. Dustjacket shows wear with some light rubbing and faint discoloration. Signed by FUENTES on title page.

Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1899. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Corners lightly bumped. Mild rubbing to edges, moreso to spine caps. Very light shelfwear to boards, some small drip stains (none longer than an inch) and a bit of sunning to spine. Gently cocked spine. Marigold and black lettering to spine and front board with red, black and marigold designs to spine and front board, with lovely double border to front as well. Top edge gilt. Deckled edge. Very clean and tight. With a number of artfully altered illustrations from photographs. 305 pp. Many plays have been made from novels; this is a book made from a play. "The Carpetbagger" originally was written as a four-act comedy. It was performed for thirty weeks during the theatrical season of 1898-9, under the intelligent management of Mr. Tim Murphy, and met with a most flattering reception. There have been so many requests for the preservation of this story in permanent form, that we have been led… Read More

New York: Magico Magazine, 1983. Paperback. Near Fine. Miniature booklets measuring 3 7/8" x 2 5/8". Card covers. 20 pp. THE CARRIAGE CLOCK (Volume 1); THE BEEKEEPER (Volume 2); THE FAIR (Volume 3); THE FOWLHAVEN WEREWOLF (Volume 4); THE LAST REUNION (Volume 5)

Northbrook, Illinois: DBI Books, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. FIFTH EDITION. REVISED. Moderate shelf and edgewear. Small folds to front bottom corners of first few preliminary pages. Small separation to corner of front cover. Light age-tanning to text. Loaded with illustrations. White lettering to spine and illustrated front cover. Clean and solid binding. 416 pp with ballistics tables, index. The book for every shooter, collector and handloader. Complete and authoritative data on rifle and pistol cartridges -- centerfire and rimfire -- shotshells, loads and ammunition components. Fully illustrated general and historical notes on each cartridge...factory and handloading ballistic data...scores of dimensional drawings (front cover).

Ashcroft, British Columbia: Calabash Press, 1997. Paperback. Paul Lowe. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate present.

Ashcroft, British Columbia: Calabash, 1999. Paperback. Near Fine. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate present.

BOSTON, MASS: Gregg Press, 1980. FIRST THUS. Hardcover. NEAR FINE IN VERY GOOD PLUS DUSTJACKET. Grastorf, Dennis J. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper

New Haven, CT : Winchester Repeating Arms Co. , 1990. Paperback. Fine. Fascimile reprint of original, published originally in 1920. Extensively-illustrated volume displays component parts, ballistics tables, illustrations of ammunition, accecssories, detailed information for each of the models of guns and advice for owners. Full index. 208 pp. Sturdy grey cardstock covers. A tiny bit of soiling to edges. Small ding to fore edge of text. Some very light thumbing to both corners. Bright and clean.

Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. Moderately shelfworn cover is in very good condition for a book of this age. Spinecaps worn and frayed. Corners nudged and worn but not frayed. Light staining to surfaces. Text age-tanned. Gilt lettering and design debossed to spine and front of deep-purple, cloth-covered beveled boards. In-blind replication of board front to rear board. Chocolate-brown endpapers. Black and white woodcut illustrations. Title page illustration with tissue guard. Book measures 7 x 4.75". Solid binding! 53 pp. A lovely Victorian-era book of poetry. "A long and ambitious but only partly successful peom that deals with the conflicting claims of religion and modern science," (Encyclopedia Britannica).

NEW YORK: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Schmidt-Glassner, H.. FIRST EDITION. Translated and adapted by Olive Cook. From the dust jacket, "No region in Europe is so richly endowed with great medieval architecture as the valley of the Rhine. In the few miles between Strassburg and Cologne, its whole development from Dark Ages to the end of Gothic can be traced." For students as well as visitors wanting a record of these "superb monuments in stone." 78 pp with 200 astounding black and white plates to rear. A light smudge to lower front board edge, previous bookstore sticker to RFEP, light wear to DJ edges, minimal shelfwear. Gilt lettering to spine, gray cloth-covered boards, tight, bright, clean, DJ has plastic cover. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.

San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus. SECOND EDITION. Previous owner's ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown endpaper. Dustjacket good plus. Sunning to spine and folds of lightly-soiled mint-green jacket showing original price of $5.00. Edgewear includes small tears and chips. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of cranberry-red, cloth-covered boards. Twenty black and white illustrations. 365 pp with extensive appendices and notes, including corrections and additions, bibliography, index. An economic and social history of the southern California of those half-forgotten, formative years. This study is chiefly confined to the period between the Gold Rush of 1849 --51 and the completion of the Pacific Railroad, some two decades later. The author has added a newspaper account of the noted bandit, Tiburcio Vasquez and additional illustrations.

New York: The Free Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. SHARP CORNERS. Dustjacket very good plus. Mild shelfwear to jacket. A bit of scuffing to spine. Crisp gilt titles debossed to spine of black, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 211 pp with notes on contributors. The fourth and concluding volume in The Hayden Colloquium series, brings together leading scholars in the varying intellectual desciplines to consider a basic problem of scientific method and concept.